Macauley Kenney is an Entrepreneur in Residence and a lecturer at MIT Sloan and MIT D-Lab. Prior to this, she served as COO at SurgiBox, a medical device venture creating novel surgical technologies, where she oversaw the launch of the first ultraportable operating room, taking the product through the design for the manufacturing process and into use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
She is passionate about human-centered design and increasing the success of impact-based ventures, particularly in hardware. Macauley teaches manufacturing technologies, with a focus on adaptation within low-resource settings, at MIT’s D-Lab. She is also the author of two patents on OR technology.
Prior to this, she was an early joiner at a rapidly expanding consulting startup in Bogota, growing the company 4x in two years and overseeing the expansion into three new country offices: Kenya, Peru, and Morocco. A serial entrepreneur, Macauley has specialized in scaling organizations in emerging markets and has led operational systems for ventures in the U.S., Rwanda, and Uganda. Additionally, she has studied early founding team dynamics and their impact on growth strategies. Her research has been featured in multiple news outlets, including Forbes and Engineering for Change.
